God is Possible

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According to Stephen Hawking, God is a fairy tale. This illustrious and renowned scientist who once wrote in his 'brief history of time' (a book I have never even been slightly motivated to read) that God might be the answer now declares God to be a complete fairy tale. As Mr. Hawking gets older, he sounds less scientific and more pedagogic.

In almost any other time, Mr. Hawking would have amounted to very little. In another time, none of us would know what he thought because nobody would have gone to any trouble to keep alive a man who cannot move under his own power. I find it odd that a man whose own life is made possible by a world in which it was once thought impossible for man to fly, circumnavigate the globe, walk on the moon, and survive if they could not move under their own power is so quick to label something as impossible. That's certainly not scientific, nor is it wise, especially given what he purportedly knows about the world in which he lives.

Everything is impossible until it's been accomplished. Then we take it for granted. During my own lifetime, we have accomplished things that were once taken for granted as impossible to man. In fact, man's very existence, let alone Mr. Hawking's contribution to the story of man, is quite mathematically improbable. Yet, he exists, and so do we, or we don't, in which case it doesn't matter what any of us say or think.

God is possible. Other smart men have pondered that, when you strip away the probabable, whatever else remains, however improbable, just might be the truth. Men have made progress by challenging the premise. Sometimes they met their untimely end. Sometimes they didn't which is the only reason why Mr. Hawking has not yet met his. You cannot prove or disprove God. Science and faith use two different modes to arrive at and explain the things of their world.

I find it to be one of the highest crimes any man can commit to attempt to destroy the faith of another person. Mr. Hawking runs that risk with this statement, but I don't think he really cares. He is more interested in being right than in what is right. No matter what you believe, the truth remains. It is not affected by opinions, perturbations, trends, experiments, or the puny efforts of man. The ways in which we seem to conquer are because we have learned the laws by which nature behaves and availed ourselves of them. Who knows what we'll know tomorrow for sure? Who knows how far we'll go? How might our world be different if Columbus had listened to a man like Hawking? Seriously, this is just very sad. Jesus wept.